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Staff Directory
Megan Davis
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Journal Articles
- M Davis, ‘The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ (2007) 11(3) Australian Indigenous Law Review 55-63.
- M Davis, 'The Challenges of Indigenous Women in Liberal Democracies' (2007) 7(1) Indigenous Law Bulletin 20-22.
- Megan Davis, ‘The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ (2007) 6 Indigenous Law Bulletin 6-8.
- Megan Davis, ‘Constitutional Niceties or the Care and Protection of Young Children?”: Aboriginal Children and the Silencing of Debate’ (2007) 44 Australian Children’s Rights News 1-4.
- M Davis, ‘How ATSIC responded to Indigenous women: Lessons for future representative structures’ (2007) Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism Journal of Law (forthcoming 2007).
- (waiting for publication) M Davis, ‘Preliminary Observations: Indigenous Australia and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement’ (2007) (2) Ngiya: Talk The Law.
- M Davis, ‘The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’, Precedent (83) (2007) 33-35.
- M Davis, Election 2007: Indigenous policy, Australian Review of Public Affairs (2007).
- M Davis, 'Howard's NT plan undermines democracy' (2007) Uniken 20.
- M Davis, ‘Aboriginal or Institutional silence? A Brief Comment on the National Emergency Response to the Anderson Wild Report’ (2007) 6 (29) Indigenous Law Bulletin 2-3.
- M Davis, ‘How do Aboriginal Women fare in Australian Democracy?’ (2007) 6 (28) Indigenous Law Bulletin 9-11.
- (reprinted) M Davis, ‘A Narrative of Exclusion: Indigenous Rights in Australia’ (2007) Human Rights Defender 16-18.
- M Davis, ‘25th Anniversary of the Indigenous Law Centre Keynote Speech’ (2007) 11 (1) Australian Indigenous Law Review 1-2.
- M Davis, ‘Welcome to the ILC’ (2007) 6 (24) Indigenous Law Bulletin 2.
- ‘Parliamentary Inquiries of Free Trade Agreements and Indigenous Peoples’, (2007) 7 Journal of Indigenous Policy 87-95.
- ‘A Culture of Disrespect: Indigenous Peoples and Australian Public Institutions’ (2006) 8 University of Technology Sydney Law Review 137-154.
- (short response) ‘Symposium: Responses to Henry Reynolds’ (2006) 6 Macquarie Law Journal 14-15.
- ‘Treaty, Yeah?The utility of a treaty to advancing reconciliation in Australia’ (2006) 31 Alternative Law Review 127-136.
- ‘International Trade rules and Indigenous Knowledge: A Basic Introduction’ (2006) 6 Indigenous Law Bulletin 10-12.
- ‘The “S” Word and Indigenous Australian: A New Variation of an Old Theme’ (Stephen Curry, ‘Indigenous Sovereignty and the Democratic Project’) (2006) 31 Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 127-141.
- ‘International Trade, the World Trade Organisation and the Human Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ (2006) 8 Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism Journal of Law 5-30.
- “‘It’s the same old song’”: Draconian Counter-Terrorism laws and the Déjà vu of Indigenous Australians’ (2006) 5 Borderlands e-journal (with Nicole Watson).
- ‘Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights’ (2006) 5 Journal of Indigenous Policy 35-47.
- ‘United Nations Reform and Indigenous Peoples’ (2005) 6 Indigenous Law Bulletin 12-16.
- ‘Indigenous Rights in Australia’ (2005) Human Rights Defender 8-10.
- ‘International Trade Law and Indigenous Peoples: A New Direction in Human Rights Advocacy?’ (2005) 8 Australian Indigenous Law Reporter 16-22.
- ‘Outwitted and Outplayed: Indigenous Internationalism and the United Nations’ (2005) 6 Indigenous Law Bulletin 4-7.
- ‘Indigenous Australia and the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement’ (2004) 5 Indigenous Law Bulletin 20-23.
- ‘New Developments in International Advocacy: Amicus Curiae and the World Trade Organisation’ (2003) 5 Indigenous Law Bulletin 14-17.
- ‘Civics Education and Human Rights’ (2003) 9 Australian Journal of Human Rights 236-255.
- ‘The UK and the Human Rights Act: Way Forward for Australia’ (2003) 22 University of Queensland Law Journal 1-19 (with Professor George Williams).
- ‘New South Wales Bill of Rights Inquiry’ (2002) 13 Public Law Review 11-15.
- ‘The United Nations Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous peoples’ (2002) 5 Indigenous Law Bulletin 6-9.
- ‘The Awas Tingni Decision: Case of the Mayagna (Sumo) Awas Tingni Community v The Republic of Nicaragua’ (2002) 15 Indigenous Law Bulletin 15-18.
Book chapters
- M Davis, ‘Arguing over Indigenous rights: Australia and the United Nations’ in Jon Altman and Melinda Hinkson (eds) Coercive Reconciliation: Stabilise, Normalise, Exit Aboriginal Australia (Arena Publications, 2007).
- (forthcoming) ‘Canada, TNCs, Aboriginal peoples and the WTO’ in Terence Gomez and Suzana Sawyer (eds)( title not confirmed, UNU Publishing, 2007)
- M Davis, “‘A Home at the United Nations’: Indigenous Peoples and International Advocacy” in William Maley and Andrew Cooper (eds) (forthcoming, title not confirmed, Palgrave, 2008).
- (forthcoming) ‘Self-determination and the demise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission’ in Martin Hinton (ed) Indigenous Australians and the Law (Cavendish Routledge, 2007).
- (forthcoming) ‘The globalisation of international human rights law, aboriginal women and the practice of aboriginal customary law’ in Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe (eds) Feminist perspectives for the new millennium (Hart Publishing, 2007).
- ‘The Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law and International Law developments’ in Indigenous Peoples: Issues in International and Australian Law (International Law Association (Australian Branch) Martin Place Papers No. 6, 2007),25-30.
- ‘Chained to the Past: The Psychological Terra Nullius of Australia’s Public Institutions’ in Tom Campbell, Jeffrey Goldsworthy and Adrienne Stone (eds) Protecting Rights without a Bill of Rights: Institutional Performance and Reform in Australia (Ashgate, 2006), 175-195.
- ‘Slouching towards Australian Public Libraries: The World Trade Organisation General Agreement on Trade in Services’ in Martin Nakata and Marcia Langton (eds) Australian Indigenous Knowledge and Libraries, (Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 2005), 129-147.
- ‘International Human Rights Law and the Domestic Treaty process’ in Treaty - Lets Get it Right! (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2003), 137-150.
- ‘Mandatory Sentencing and the Myth of the Fair-go’ in Martin Nakata (ed) Indigenous Peoples, Racism and The United Nations (Common Ground Publishing, 2001), 101-108.
Refereed Law Reform Commission paper
- ‘International Human Rights Law and the Recognition of Aboriginal Customary Law’ Aboriginal Customary Laws reference Law Reform Commission of Western Australia, 2005
Book reviews
- (forthcoming) ‘A Higher Authority: Indigenous transnationalism and Australia’ (by Ravi de Costa) Indigenous Law Bulletin (2007).
- (forthcoming) ‘A Fatal Conjunction: Two Laws, Two Cultures’ (by Joan Kimm) Balayi 10 (2007).
- ‘Indigenous Sovereignty and the Democratic Project’ (by Stephen Curry) Australian Journal of Legal Philosophy 31 (2006) 127-141.
- ‘Retreat from Injustice – Human Rights Law in Australia’ (edited by Nick O’Neill, Simon Rice and Roger Douglas) (2006) 8 Balayi: Culture, Law and Colonialism Journal of Law 107-109.
- ‘Achieving Social Justice’ (by Larissa Behrendt) (2003) 26 University of New South Wales Law Journal 813-818.
- ‘Sceptical Essays on Human Rights’ (edited by T Campbell, K D Ewing and A Tomkins) (2002) 23 Adelaide Law Review 182-188.
- ‘Rights Reluctance: Utilitarianism and the Future of Human Rights in Australia’ (‘Writing Rights in Australia’ by Hilary Charlesworth) (2001) Australian Review of Public Affairs.
- ‘Indigenous Human Rights’ (edited by Garkawe, Kelly, Fisher) (2002) 5 Balayi 166-172.
Major research publications/reports
- ‘Indigenous women and youth in the Pacific states of the Commonwealth’ Research paper for Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, London University Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2006
- ‘Recognition of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Rights’, Background paper, National Reconciliation Planning Workshop, 2005
- Australia/United States Free Trade Agreement, Ngiya Institute for Indigenous Law, Policy and Practice briefing paper, 2005
- ‘Case Studies and Current Research regarding Customary Protocols and Intellectual Property from Aboriginal Australia’ and ‘Aboriginal Australia and the Nature, Objectives and Basic Principles of Intellectual Property’ (WIPO North American Workshop on Intellectual property and Traditional Knowledge, Ottawa, Canada, 7-9 September 2003)
- ‘Terrorism’ Hot Topics No. 42, Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of New South Wales, 2002
- ‘Mandatory Sentencing and the myth of the fair-go’ Australia Institute of Criminology, Symposium on New Responses and New Crimes: Indigenous Peoples and Crime, 2001
Parliamentary submissions
- Submission to Senate Legal and Constitutional Committee on Northern Territory National Emergency Response Legislation (10 August 2007).
- Jumbunna submission Professor Larissa Behrendt and Megan Davis, Joint Standing Committee on Treaties on Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (13 April 2004).
- Submission with Professor George Williams and Vanessa Bosnjak to ACT Bill of Rights Consultative Committee on A Bill of Rights for the Act (19 September 2002).
Parliamentary briefings
- ‘UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A presentation of the impending international human rights standard’ Parliamentary Briefing, Parliament House, Canberra (Thursday, 12 October 2006 with Tom Calma and Les Malezer).
Media Comment/Opinion
- Comments on John Howard`s proposed referendum for Aboriginal constitutional recognition, Koori Mail (24 October, 2007) p. 5.
- Opinion piece, “The more things change, the more they stay the same” National Indigenous Times (18 October 2007).
- Opinion piece, "The symbolism isn’t bad, but the hypocrisy and cruelty are" Sydney Morning Herald, 15 October June 2007, p. 13 republished in Online Opinion.
- Triple J (National Australia) Hack: comments on John Howard`s proposed referendum for Aboriginal constitutional recognition. 12 October 2007
- Comment on PMs referendum proposal - ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly, 17 September, 2007; "Rush will doom preamble, say experts” Sydney Morning Herald, 13 October 2007; SKY News Ausralia: First Edition, 12 October 2007; SBS Television: World News Australia, 12 October 2007;"Rush will doom preamble, says experts" comment on the PM`s referendum proposal, Sydney Morning Herald, 15 October 2007, p.4
- Opinion piece, 'Australia is not an island' National Indigenous Times pp 21-22 (20 September 2007) republished, 'Australia is not an island' Online Opinion (3 October, 2007).
- Comments on the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Radio Triple J (National Australia): Hack Triple J, 17 September 2007; Online ABC News, 17 September 2007; Triple J, 13 September 2007; Also: Radio ABC Western Queensland, Radio ABC 891 Adelaide, Radio ABC Darwin, Radio ABC 702 Sydney, Radio ABC 612 Brisbane, Radio ABC 936 Hobart, and Radio ABC 666 Canberra; SBS Television: World News Australia.
- Interview, 'Legal Expert, Indigenous businessman discuss NT intervention', ABC Radio National, The World Today (10 August 2007).
- Comment, 'Aboriginals say sex-laws crackdown will destroy rights to tribal justice' The Scotsman (9 August 2007).
- Interview, NT Plan, Koori Radio, Blackchat 93.7 FM (19 July 2007).
- Interview, Howard’s NT Plan, Murri Voices 4KIG Townsville (17 July 2007).
- Comment, Koori Mail on Federal government’ s constitutional powers to tackle the problem of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory (9 July 2007).
- Interview, ILC National Forum and Howard’s NT Plan on Murri Voices 4KIG Townsville (4 July 2007).
- Panel member, Hack, ABC Radio, Triple J, about Howard’s NT plan (28 June, 2007).
- Comment, the Federal government’s intervention in the Northern Territory on indigenous child abuse in Sydney Morning Herald (22 June 2007).
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Opinion piece, ‘The business of controversy’ National Indigenous Times (31 May, 2007)
- Panel member, Australia Talks (National Implications of Palm Island) ABC Radio National (5 February, 2007)
- Opinion piece, ‘Why Indigenous Australia needs a United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples’ National Indigenous Times (30 November, 2006)
- Comment, ‘Shared Responsibility: Mutual Obligation’ Background Briefing (12 March, 2006) ABC Radio National
- Comment, ‘Mixed bag on Queen’s role’ National Indigenous Times (9 March, 2006)
- Opinion piece, ‘There’s pork on the BBQ: Warren Mundine and the ALP’ National Indigenous Times
- ‘With friends like Warren Mundine and the ALP...’ Online Opinion (1 December, 2005)
- Comment, Sedition Laws, Living Black, SBS (14 November, 2005)
- Comment, Sedition Laws, National Indigenous Times (Thursday 24, November 2005)
- ‘Aboriginal leadership and welfare reform: you’re not the first Noel’ Online Opinion (8 September 2005)
- ‘Chin up cobbers, don’t you worry about that: National security and human rights’ New Matilda (25 May 2005)
- ABC Radio National, Life Matters, ‘The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and Australia’s treatment of indigenous children’.
- ‘Adverse effects of free trade deal will hit indigenous groups hard’ (March 8 2004) Sydney Morning Herald (with Professor Larissa Behrendt)
- ‘The Constitution Not Protection Enough’ Canberra Times (23 September 2002) (with Professor George Williams and Vanessa Bosnjak).
UN seminar papers
- Canada case study, ‘Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples’, United Nations Research Institute Social Development Workshop, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (2-3 April 2007)
- United Nations Expert Seminar on Treaties, Agreements and other Constructive Arrangements between States and indigenous peoples, Hobbema, Alberta (14-17 November 2006)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and the World Trade Organisation: Canadian case study’, Identity, Power and Rights: The State, International Institutions and Indigenous Peoples United Nations Research Institute Social Development Workshop, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland (26-27 July 2006)
- ‘Indigenous peoples in Australia’, United Nations Indigenous Fellows Forum, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Forum 2004, Barcelona, Spain, (August 11 2004)
- ‘Case Studies and Current Research regarding Customary Protocols and Intellectual Property from Aboriginal Australia’ and ‘Aboriginal Australia and the Nature, Objectives and Basic Principles of Intellectual Property’ delivered at WIPO North American Workshop on Intellectual property and Traditional Knowledge, Ottawa, Canada, (7-9 September 2003)
Keynote speaker/conference papers
- ‘Indigenous women and youth in the Pacific states of the Commonwealth’ Research paper for Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, University Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2006, London 13th April 2007
- ‘Recognition of a Customary law in a Bill of Rights’ National Indigenous Legal Conference, NSW Bar Association (Saturday, 23 September 2006)
- ‘Indigenous peoples and Diplomatic Practices’ ‘Worlds Apart? Exploring the Interface Between Governance and Diplomacy conference’, Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University and The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Waterloo, Canada (5 March 2006)
- Keynote Speaker, ‘New Arrangements in Indigenous Affairs’ Illawarra Youth Services Conference, Craigieburn Bowral (Friday 28, October 2005)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations’, Annual Conference, Australian New Zealand Society of International Law, ANU Canberra (Thursday 16 June 2005)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and leadership at the United Nations’ Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre, Novotel Brighton Beach, (6 December 2004)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations’ Commonwealth Aging and Health Department Indigenous Conference, Novotel Brighton Beach, (28 November 2004)
- ‘Indigenous Rights: Looking Forward’ ACT Bill of Rights Forum, Australia National Museum, Canberra, (June 1 2004)
- Keynote Speaker, ‘International human rights advocacy: unexamined casualty of the demise of ATSIC’ National Association of Community Legal Centres Stamford Grand Hotel Glenelg Adelaide, (29 August 2004)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and WTO TRIPS’ International Society of Business, Economics and Ethics, Third World Congress, University of Melbourne (14-17 July 2004)
- ‘WTO TRIPS, international trade and women’ HREOC Women Taking Action Workshops Clancy Auditorium UNSW Sydney (17 June 2004)
- ‘International Trade Law and Indigenous Peoples: WTO Softwood Lumber dispute’, Annual Conference, Australian New Zealand Society of International Law, Canberra (19 June 2004)
- UNSW Gilbert & Tobin Centre of Public Law, Bill of Rights Conference, Parliament House Sydney ‘Civics Education in Australia: A Way Forward for a Bill of Rights’ (2002)
- Keynote Speaker, International Women’s Day, Aboriginal Torres Strait Islander Commission, Manuka Oval, Canberra (March 8 2002)
- ‘Mandatory Sentencing and the Myth of the Fair-Go’ ATSIC United Nations Preparatory Conference for World Conference against Racism (March 2001)
Seminar papers
- ‘Indigenous peoples and the criminal justice system’ HSC Legal Studies seminar, Surry Hills (March 2007)
- ‘Access to justice for Indigenous peoples and tendering of Aboriginal legal services’ HSC Legal Studies seminar, Surry Hills (November 2006)
- ‘UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: A presentation of the impending international human rights standard’ Parliamentary Briefing, Parliament House, Canberra (Thursday, 12 October 2006)
- Symposium on WTO Issues and Law’ International Trade and Development Project, Gilbert + Tobin Centre of Public Law, UNSW, Corowa Room, Gilbert + Tobin (23 June 2006)
- (panel) ‘Writing for Change: Political activism and writing’ Indigenous Writers Festival 2006 (Saturday 24 June 2006)
- ‘Any plank on a sinking ship – the human rights and legal implications of a Treaty’ NAIDOC Seminar, Carlton School of Population Health, Melbourne (Thursday 7 July)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and human rights in Australia: the perennial footnote’: Workshop: Protecting Human Rights in Australia: Past, Present and Future. The Novotel Hotel, St Kilda (10-12 December 2003)
- ‘International human rights law and Aboriginal customary law’: International Law Association (Australia Branch)/ Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Seminar on Recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander customary law, (25 November 2003)
- ‘Globalising Human Rights: Aboriginal Women, customary Aboriginal law and the common law’ delivered at workshop on ‘Women, Crime and Globalisation: Feminist Perspectives for the New Millennium’ at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL),Onati, Spain, (23-26 September 2003)
- ‘Indigenous Peoples and International Trade Law’ Jumbunna Indigenous House of Learning Seminar series University of Technology Sydney (July 2003)
- The 4th National Outlook Symposium on Crime in Australia – New Crimes or New Responses ‘Crime and Indigenous Australians ‘Mandatory Sentencing and the Myth of the Fair-Go’ (Thursday 21 June 2001)
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